HowTo: Setup Solr + Eclipse development environment

Solr from sources for development with eclipse

Getting sources and tools

• Clone solr sources for your desired branch in eclipse from github
• install ant, install perl (for dist creation)
  • see portable perl from strawberry perl if you don’t have admin rights

Setup

• go to your git repository of solr and to the lucene-solr root dir
• run ant ivy-bootstrap
  • if you are behind a proxy structure use the ant parameter -autoproxy
• go to solr dir
• run ant dist
• run ant server for a runable solr server
• after successful compile go to solr/bin and start server
• go to lucene-solr dir
• run ant eclipse
• import eclipse project from lucene-solr root dir

Run solr with debug

At command line call the Solr server like this to enable the debug port

java -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=7666 -jar start.jar

In Eclipse go to

• debug configurations -> remote java applications”
• click at “new”
• Name the project
• put the port in that corresponds to the address above.

Additional points (Q+A)

Q: You are behind a proxy?

A: use -autoproxy parameter if ant is not able to resolv the proxy configuration

Q: Your proxy uses it own certificates to open HTTPS Connections?

A: add the used root-certificate of the proxy to the java keystore that belongs to the JDK that is configured by JAVA_HOME var.